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Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Published [2025] by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY
ISBN 9780393881165
Bib Id 1484186
Copyright 2025
Edition First edition.
Description xii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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ISBN
9780393881165 (hardcover) $30.00
0393881164
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974.71 S
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Title
Taking Manhattan : the extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Varying Form of Title
Extraordinary events that created New York and shaped America
Edition
First edition.
Publication Information
[2025] by W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY :
Copyright Date
©2025
Description
xii, 390 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-371) and index.
Contents
Prologue: The view from the mountaintop -- Part one: Squaring off. The invader -- The defender -- Enemy waters -- Stuyvesant's error -- Part two: Settlement and exile. Rabbits on an anthill -- The trailblazer -- The exile -- Dorothea Angola -- Restoration London -- Part three: A game of chess. Doppelganger -- Gravesend -- The alchemist -- The delegation -- The effusion of Christian blood -- White flag -- "The town of Manhatans" -- Part four: The invention. Remaining English -- Merger -- Going Dutch -- The mystery.
Summary
The author of The Island at the Center of the World offers up a thrilling narrative of how New York--that brash, bold, archetypal city--came to be.
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